# The Run > The Alaska salmon season, by district, species and value. How far the commercial harvest has come against the preseason forecast, area by area and species by species, pulled from ADF&G's Blue Sheet through the season. The sockeye scoreboard, the district leaders, and the value where ADF&G publishes it. One brief a week in season. No forecasts of our own, no fishing calls. _Data through Aug 27, 2026._ ## Latest issue: Cook Inlet Tops Its Forecast at 111 Percent (Aug 22, 2026) Cook Inlet reached 111 percent of forecast this week, driven by a sockeye harvest up 317.7 percent week over week to 969K fish. Statewide, reds are at 85 percent of the 44.1M fish forecast. Read: https://therun.news/issues/2026-08-22 · Markdown: https://therun.news/issues/2026-08-22.md ## The data ### Season scoreboard The flagship: how far Alaska's commercial salmon harvest has come against the preseason forecast, ranked by fishing area. The percent of forecast is the share of the full-season projection landed so far, the cumulative Blue Sheet harvest over ADF&G's April forecast. - [Alaska salmon season scoreboard, 2026](https://therun.news/scoreboard/statewide.md) — 82.4M fish all species, 69% of The Run's 119.9M fish commercial-comparable forecast (as of Aug 27, 2026) ### Run summary Bristol Bay day by day: the cumulative commercial harvest by district, off ADF&G's Blue Sheet, with what each district added since the last report and when it was first published. Harvest only. Escapement and total-run counts stay with ADF&G's own Bristol Bay daily run summary, which this page links. - [Bristol Bay daily run summary, 2026](https://therun.news/run-summary/bristol-bay.md) — 29.7M fish sockeye, 92% of the 32.3M fish in-area forecast (as of Aug 27, 2026) ### Areas Each ADF&G management area, Bristol Bay, Prince William Sound, Southeast and the rest, with its cumulative harvest by species, its forecast and its percent of forecast, plus the last published ex-vessel prices where ADF&G has them. Bristol Bay also carries the by-district drill-down. - [Alaska Peninsula salmon harvest](https://therun.news/district/alaska-peninsula.md) — 3.10M fish pink, 61% of forecast (as of Aug 27, 2026) - [Arctic-Yukon-Kuskokwim salmon harvest](https://therun.news/district/ayk.md) — 47K fish chum, 41% of forecast (as of Aug 27, 2026) - [Bristol Bay salmon harvest](https://therun.news/district/bristol-bay.md) — 29.7M fish sockeye, 92% of forecast (as of Aug 27, 2026) - [Chignik salmon harvest](https://therun.news/district/chignik.md) — 620K fish sockeye, 57% of forecast (as of Aug 27, 2026) - [Cook Inlet salmon harvest](https://therun.news/district/cook-inlet.md) — 970K fish sockeye, comparable commercial forecast not published (as of Aug 27, 2026) - [Kodiak salmon harvest](https://therun.news/district/kodiak.md) — Source line broken; last quoted Aug 27, 2026 - [Prince William Sound salmon harvest](https://therun.news/district/prince-william-sound.md) — 2.42M fish pink, 13% of forecast (as of Aug 27, 2026) - [Southeast Alaska salmon harvest](https://therun.news/district/southeast.md) — 15.9M fish pink, 84% of forecast (as of Aug 27, 2026) ### Species Each species, sockeye, pink, chum, coho and Chinook, with the statewide cumulative harvest against the forecast, broken out by fishing area. Sockeye are the value engine of the season even when pinks drive the fish count. - [Alaska chinook salmon harvest](https://therun.news/species/chinook.md) — 140K fish statewide, 71% of forecast (as of Aug 27, 2026) - [Alaska chum salmon harvest](https://therun.news/species/chum.md) — 9.53M fish statewide, 55% of forecast (as of Aug 27, 2026) - [Alaska coho salmon harvest](https://therun.news/species/coho.md) — 848K fish statewide, 35% of forecast (as of Aug 27, 2026) - [Alaska pink salmon harvest](https://therun.news/species/pink.md) — 34.3M fish statewide, 61% of forecast (as of Aug 27, 2026) - [Alaska sockeye salmon harvest](https://therun.news/species/sockeye.md) — 37.6M fish statewide, 85% of forecast (as of Aug 27, 2026) ### Forecast ADF&G's April Run Forecasts and Harvest Projections, by area and species, the benchmark the whole scoreboard measures the actual harvest against. Reported as ADF&G publishes it and never adjusted. - [Alaska salmon preseason forecast, 2026](https://therun.news/forecast/preseason.md) — 125.5M fish statewide (as of Aug 27, 2026) ### Why the season is running this way Whether Alaska's harvest is running ahead of or behind the preseason forecast, and what structurally decides that. - [Why is Alaska's salmon harvest ahead of forecast?](https://therun.news/why/salmon-harvest-ahead.md) — Season in progress (69% of forecast) - [Why is Alaska's salmon harvest behind forecast?](https://therun.news/why/salmon-harvest-behind.md) — Season in progress (69% of forecast) ## More - [Key statistics](https://therun.news/stats.md) - [Guides](https://therun.news/guides.md) - [Issue archive](https://therun.news/issues) - [Agent index (llms.txt)](https://therun.news/llms.txt) - [RSS feed](https://therun.news/rss.xml)